CNF AIRPORT OVERVIEW, HISTORY & CONTACT

Belo Horizonte International Airport CNF (formerly Confins Tancredo Airport) serves the south-east Brazilian State of Minas Gerais and its City of Belo Horizonte. (Pampulha Airport, much closer to Belo Horizonte, is restricted to smaller aircraft holding up to 50 passengers.) BH Airport is located close to the municipality of Confins, and about 40 km south of the city of Belo Horizonte. It is accessible directly from motorway MG-10 or indirectly via MG424.
Belo Horizonte is currently Brazil's fourth-busiest airport in terms of passenger count. While Infraero is still a 49 percent Airport shareholder - the remaining 51 percent are shared by Grupo CCR & Zurich Airports, referred to as 'BH Airport' is the new concessionaire, managaging the Airport until 2044. It not only promised to transform it into an 'Airport City'- but managed within a 3-year span, to increase terminal capacity to 22 million passengers annually - while implementing new road access, more parking spaces, and expansion & reconfiguration of aircraft yard.

With a long runway and about 13 million passengers in 2016, Confins Tancredo Airport is hub to Azul airlines, and is served by a host of airlines, including American (serving Miami Airport tel. 3689-2469) , offering direct and connecting flights to all points of the globe.
LCC (Low cost carriers) make up for 75 percent of capacity - while international flights are currently limited to North America & Spain.
As BH Airport is growing rapidly; therefore, the Airport recently acquired a new Airport Management System (AMS) to provide real-time information management to optimize BH Airports' decision-making process, facilitate operational excellence andfacilitate a significant expansion of the airport from 10 to 20 million passengers per year.

BH Belo Horizonte Airport now has one integrated passenger terminal - opened December 2016 - serving both domestic & international flights. It covers an area of 52,000 sq.meters and hasa capacity of 22M passengers annually. There are 26 boarding bridges (3 for international flights), 17 X-ray inspection channels, 9 baggage return mats, 3 sets of conveyor belts, 27 elevators, 14 escalators, 44 aircraft positions. International 'Check-in 3' offers 20 common-use check-in facilities, 5 Xray / security inspections, 10 passport counters and 3 boarding bridges for international flights. The curved new terminal offers WiFi service throughout its 3 levels, self-service check-in kiosks, new food & retail outlet, ATMs, new Data Center, and more). The 29,000 sq.meter terminal apron with 44 positions is able to handle aircraft of different sizes.
The curved new terminal houses arrivals & check-in facilities on the ground level, on level 1 the boarding area, and on level 2 special services. The Ground level and level 1 are divided between domestic and international flights.
- The Ground level houses both Arrivals and Check-in facilities: At Arrivals: baggage claim, customs, rental car counters and some sevices & amenities. At check-in: traditional & self-service facilities. The information counter - leads to level 1.
- Level 1 is the Departure level with security & passport control, and access to amenities & services in the boarding area and to all airline gates (with single (domestic?) gates. 1-7 at the western end, followed by 17 international boarding bridges eastwards.
- Level 2 houses VIP service, some duty shops and eateries, and access to International departures and to the observation deck.
Stationed outside of the arrivals level are stands for taxis, hotel vans and special official taxis. At the east end of the terminal a viaduct leads to carparks P1, P2, P3 - which in turn are surrounded by economy lots E3, E2 & E1 . (E3 borders Highway 800 leading east to Pedro Leopold and west to Belo Horizonte, Lagoa Santa.
(The Airport's current map shows tiny unreadable print which cannot be enlarged.)

NOTE: The passenger terminal is a smoke-free area.
- BH Belo Horizonte Airport is one of the Brazilian airports with 'facial recognition technology' of NEC's NeoFace Watch solution. - Rockwell Collins installed early 2017 CUPPS passenger check-in processing solutions for airline flexibility, common-use self-service kiosks; and the latest network & message solution to provide enhanced flight operations.Current and future Airport developments: Currently the runway expansion is under construction, adding 600 meters and fully resurfacing it. A second runnway (2,500 by 45 meters is to be constructed thereafter - whereby it is hoped that by year 2020 approximately 198,000 take-offs /landings a year may be achieved.